The Storm Rages
In Oregon it rains a lot. That may sound like an obvious statement. Bears crap in the woods, okay we can agree on this. The Pope wears a silly hat. But you are missing the undercurrent of obviousness. In Oregon it RAINS A LOT kay? Now with this in mind in my home town of Salem the average rainfall per year is 60 inches. When spread out over two hundred days of overcast weather this is not a big deal. But in one 24 hour period 11 inches seems biblical. Take for example the Lees Camp weather station that recorded 14.5 inches of rain on December the 3rd. Just down the road we have Vernonia with 11 inches of rain on December 3rd. This was enough to place the town of Vernonia twelve feet under water, and thus we saw the dramatic rescue of the townsfolk from their roofs that night.
Lincoln City recorded record winds; 125 mph winds literally blew power gauges off the houses of local residents. Bay City near Tillamook experienced 129 mph winds. Oregon suffers a plague called radical environmentalism, under this scourge our timber industry is prevented from cutting down deadwood, cleaning underbrush or performing simple forestry in so called “protected lands” this leads to conditions every summer where a large portion the state catches on fire, it is so bad that the National Guard’s operation plan for civil support is called Op Plan Smokey. The 100 mph plus winds caused absolute havoc throughout the state. Oregon has damage to 350 million board feet of timber and is scrambling to find foreign markets to buy our wood. Even if we can clear it and sell it, the rail road supplying the Port of Tillamook was destroyed by a large bolus of floating forest debris during the flood. There is no practical way to load the lumber on to ship. The final cost of the storm is estimated to be $250 million. Of course this is nothing compared to the human loss of six lives.
December 3rd Politically
Secretary Rice was the opening speaker for the US-Palestinian Public-Private Partnership Promoting Economic and Educational Opportunities for the Palestinian People. USPPPPEEOPP? Rice said “Most Israelis now believe that a responsible Palestinian state is in the national interest of Israel.” Oh really? I guess she doesn’t read the op-ed portion of Haaretz. No one in the Likkud party is espousing a Palestinian state and very few in Labor seem all that interested. “Israel must meet its obligation to ensure that a Palestinian state will be viable and independent” she continued.
Winds of Change
While the winds of change were blowing in D.C. and Secretary Rice was hob knobbing with Palestinian sympathizers; the winds of destruction were blowing in Oregon. You may disagree with my assertion that this was a judgment from God on the US. So let us fast forward a week or two. While Secretary Rice was in France on Monday 17 December, she pledged almost a billion dollars of US taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian government. At the same time a snow storm was hitting the central United States, it claimed nine lives. Every time Rice places pressure on the Israelis to accept a Palestinian State, and a divided Jerusalem; we get record weather and 92,000 without power… maybe we should stop.
After all it is a great new theory on global “climate change” mess with Israel and God messes with your weather. I know it sounds real “Olde Testament” but that’s the way it looks. When the Great Willamette Flood of 1996 hit on February 9th 1996 the Clinton administration was pushing Benjamin Netanyahu to relinquish the Golan Heights to Syria. That was the same weather system that ravaged the Southern portion of the United States with twenty two tornados. Coincidence? Maybe. This was the same month the US State Department was pressuring Israel to expel illegal Jewish aliens so Palestinians could get jobs in Israel. The US wanted Israel to expel 60,000 foreign nationals specifically to employ Palestinian refugees.
The Bible? Do we still read that thing?
In a day when the President keeps a Koran in the Oval Office and states that Christians and Muslims pray to the same god cultural obfuscation is the opiate of the masses. The powers that be will say anything to keep American Christians from re-claiming political assertiveness. So I leave you with this.
Zec 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem.
Isa 59:18-21 According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
References
http://www.oregonlive.com/argus/stories/index.ssf?/base/columnist/1197049966146080.xml&coll=6
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/stories/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1197582904185300.xml&coll=7
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/freund121307.php3?printer_friendly
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2007/12/96142.htm
Aluf Benn (2007) What’s the Hurry? Hareetz dated 27/12/2007
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/MN/comments.php?id=1041_0_5_0
Sciolino Elaine (18 Dec 2007) $7.4 Billion Pledged for Palestinians, The New York Times
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